Movie Reviews, Digital HD Reviews, and Television Reviews

Here at FlickDirect, our goal is to provide up-to-date reviews on theatrical, home entertainment, and television series. Check out the scoop on upcoming films or programming, and even our take on the classsics from our critics and Rotten Tomatoes Approved, Allison Rose.

Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/16/2020 10:29 AM EDT
Growing up I spent Saturday nights in front of my television watching two hours of shows. The double whammy of The Love Boat and Fantasy Island were too enticing to give up. The promise of romance on the high seas followed by having one's wildest dreams come true - for a price – was a tempting duo. Because it was a little &q... Read More

V: The Final Battle

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/14/2020 9:20 AM EDT
As fans, we can be passionate and overzealous about our favorite shows/movies/music/etc. Just look at all the social media posts about Netflix's sensational documentary, Tiger King. Everyone is talking about this show and if you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for? Well, Back in 1983 and 1984 colleagues stood aro... Read More

Trolls World Tour

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/10/2020 10:10 AM EDT
They're colorful, they're bright, they're furry, they love to sing and dance and…they fart glitter. Yes, that's right, Universal Studios/DreamWorks Animation is once again bringing their beloved Trolls back for a second round. Poppy (Anna Kendrick; Pitch Perfect), Branch (Justin Timberlake; In Time) and the rest o... Read More

Call of The Wild

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 4/2/2020 5:59 PM EDT
Jack London spent almost a year in the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Goldrush. While there he watched as dog sleds raced through the harsh terrain and weather in an effort to get their masters' to the gold before anyone else. From this experience, he later wrote his most popular piece of fiction – a novel entitled The Call of the W... Read More

Bad Boys For Life

(Alyn Darnay) 4/1/2020 9:20 AM EDT
As you should know "Bad Boys For Life" is the third action-packed buddy-cop film in the Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay created franchise, and comes out nearly two decades after the last entry. Surprisingly, it maintains the same level of high-spirited, chaotic, action as the previous films, even though this outing moves its main characters... Read More

Just Mercy

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/31/2020 11:20 AM EDT
In 1985 Bryan Stevenson graduated from Harvard Law School and instead of going to work in a fancy law firm, making lots of money and working 80 hours a week, he chose to work for the Southern Center for Human Rights. After federal funding for that program was cut he decided to create the non-profit EJI=Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, ... Read More

Dolittle

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/27/2020 8:39 AM EDT
In 1920 English author Hugh Lofting published the first of fifteen children's books entitled The Story of Doctor Dolittle. The books chronicle the life of a doctor who decides to forgo treating human patients for animals, with whom he can converse. The popular series based in the 1800's has been adapted for the big screen severa... Read More

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

(Eric English) 3/25/2020 4:17 PM EDT
Hardly an introduction is needed. When you are suddenly surrounded by the first triumphant notes of its iconic theme song followed by its inwardly scrolling vertical marquee you already know where you are being transported. To a different universe filled with exotic alien creatures, heroic stories of the past written in an epic war between good and... Read More

The Grudge

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 3/23/2020 10:26 AM EDT
In 1998, while in film school, Takashi Shimizu created; a series of short horror films called Ju-On or "Curse Grudge". They became popular in Japan and in 2004 a version, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) was produced for American cinema. It was followed by The Grudge 2 In 2006 and a third installment that wa... Read More

Jumanji: The Next Level

(Alyn Darnay) 3/22/2020 7:54 PM EDT
Can you hear the drums beating? Is your pulse racing? Are you slowly being drawn molecule by molecule into another universe? The answer is yes and you're off on another adventure inside the mysterious game called "Jumanji". The question is will you survive long enough to solve another quest and get back out?!Jumanji is back and it has add... Read More